[Freddy]

Well done on the Loebner win 

Do you want to do another interview ? 

[squarebear]

Thanks Freddy, sure if you like. It'll probably be the same answers though

[Freddy]

Let's do an interview in the forum and then we can all join in.

Okay three questions from me.

1) How did Mitsuku differ from how she was in previous competitions ?

2) Would anything ever make you change from AIML to some other chat bot scripting language ?

3) What are you going to do with two of those gongs now ? 

[claude2]

Bravo SquareBear! 

[kei10]

Oh, my, congrats SquareBear!

I didn't know you're the creator of Mitsuku! O_O

[Korrelan]

Congrat's on the win. 

[Data]

Nicely done Squarebear, another solid and genuine result for all the hard work. 

[Art]

Well done again, Steve. I can build you a nice display shelf if you like!

[squarebear]

Thanks everyone. It feels great to join the very exclusive club of multiple Loebner Prize winners. To answer Freddy's questions:

1) As well as thousands of extra responses and pieces of knowledge, I've also added a hundred or so more objects to Mitsuku's common sense database. She also has the ability to solve some Winograd schemas, as this seems to feature in the qualifying rounds now. I was pretty pleased that she managed to work one out without guessing:

Judge - Dave drove faster than Mike because he was in a rush.  Who was in a rush?
Mitsuku - He sounds like a fun person to know. I will learn that Dave was rushing . Dave

2) Nope. Although AIML still seems get a lot of bad press from other developers, I love it and have yet to see anything it can't do. I try not to get into the "my language is better than yours" type of debates. They are non productive.

3) Now I have two of them, I'm going to get them framed. The medals will be placed side by side with the heads looking at each other, a bit like the photo I posted, and then hung on my wall, so if I'm ever feeling frustrated about Mitsuku, I can look at them for inspiration. If I win a few more though, I'll have to take up Art's kind offer of making me a shelf

[Freddy]

Thanks for your answers

I like AIML, I think it's a nice way to build bots. You've proved again what is possible.

Framing them like that sounds cool, seeing both sides now you have two !

Does anyone else have any questions for SquareBear ? I'll turn this into an article for the site, so feel free to chip in everyone

[kei10]

SquareBear's news page appears to hold certain answers for a few common questions;
http://www.square-bear.co.uk/mitsuku/news.htm

I was about to ask how SquareBear manage Mitsuku's knowledge database, as her response seems to be too solid and frequently identical at times unless we try to twist it. Then I found that if she learns something, the SquareBear decides whether to add to her permanent database, thus she probably learned almost everything SquareBear gave her instead of public users. While any personal details is stored within the user's side.

That sure avoided the situation where people could corrupt her which occurred several times mentioned from the news. Nice! 

Hmm, this seems an great way to handle it. The project Mitsuku began in 2006, which she is nearly 10 years old now! I was surprised that she has so much knowledge, which I believe it requires a substantial amount of effort to look through and select and filter out information she need to learn (I noticed that the information were responded differently based on the question like "what", "when", "why", "whom", "where", etc). But then this begs a question.

For the ten years, has it been, or is it difficult to handle such task to manage her knowledge that way? :O

Thanks!

[8pla.net]

Wow!

That's terrific news.

[Zero]

Congratulations SquareBear!

[8pla.net]

I was wondering if you would answer a few questions?

1. For the sake of newcomers to AI, please tell us about yourself.

2. So, what got you started in artificial intelligence?

3. What inspired you to create a famous world champion chatbot?

4. Are there advantages to a chatbot always giving the best response?

5. Are there disadvantages to a chatbot always giving the best response?

6. What resources helped you become a two time world champion chatbot designer?

7. How do you plan to continue winning chatbot championships, as AI advances?

8. Is it fair say the UK is the world leader in artificial intelligence?


For readability purposes, please include the questions with your responses.

[8pla.net]

Has there been any follow up BBC coverage?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24107790

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33825358



Seems like early BBC reporting set up a nice news scoop. 

That speaks well for BBC, I think.